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Letter "D" » doctrines
«Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.»
Author: Avram Noam Chomsky
(Activist, Linguist)
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conventional, doctrines, like it, Neptune, or else, repeat, say something
«By entertaining of strange persons, men sometimes entertain angels unawares: but by entertaining of strange doctrines, many have entertained devils unaware»
Author: John Flavel
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devils, doctrines, entertain, entertained, entertaining, unaware, unawares
«It still remains true that as a set of cognitive beliefs about the existence of God in any recognizable sense continuous with the great systems of the past, religious doctrines constitute a speculative hypothesis of an extremely low order of probabil»
Author: Sidney Hook
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belief system, cognitive, constitute, doctrines, existence of God, hypothesis, Order of, recognizable, religious belief, religious doctrine, speculative, systems, the existence of God
«If you want a war, nourish a doctrine. Doctrines are the most frightful tyrants to which men are ever subject, because doctrines get inside a man's reason and betray him against himself. Civilized men have done their fiercest fighting for doctrines.»
«In no other country in the world is the love of property keener or more alert than in the United States, and nowhere else does the majority display less inclination toward doctrines which in any way threaten the way property is owned.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
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alert, alerting, display, doctrines, inclination, in the United States, keener, on the alert, owned, threaten
«Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.»
«But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.»
«A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines.»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
deceived, doctrines, indispensable, serves
«Had the doctrines of Jesus been preached always as pure as they came from his lips, the whole civilized world would now have been Christians.»
«I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
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doctrines, epicurean, Epicureans, Epicurus, Greek, impute, imputed, imputes, imputing, moral philosophy, roman
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